Composition and diversity of ammonia-oxidising bacterial communities in wastewater treatment reactors of different design treating identical wastewater

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-206

  Rowan, Arlene K ^a   Snape, Jason R ^b   Fearnside, David ^c   Barer, Michael R ^d   Curtis, Thomas P ^a   Head, Ian M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c Yorkshire Water   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidising bacterium; Comparative analysis; Industrial waste; Raup and Crick statistical analysis; Ribosomal RNA

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTEWATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOCOCCUS; NITROSOCOCCUS MOBILIS; NITROSOMONAS;

EID: 0037445316     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(02)00395-1     Document Type: Article

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